[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8856727/1/%E5%BD%B1-Kage Kage]] is a ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' and ''{{WesternAnimation/WITCH}}'' crossover fanfiction by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2079476/chaotic9 chaotic9]], and a part of FanFic/ProjectDarkJade. The author has another project story called ''Fanfic/AFrogInArkhamAsylum''

The premise of the story is that Drago, during his defeat and banishment at the end of the final episode, cast a spell so that Jade, who he viewed as an ArchEnemy, was cast out of her world, to an entirely seperate universe.

She then finds herself in Meridian at the start of the second season of ''{{WesternAnimation/WITCH}}'', her [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Queen of the Shadowkhan]] persona [[EnemyWithin partially reawakened]], and gets caught up in the battle between the Guardians and Nerissa, with circumstances forcing her to ally with the crazy sorceress in her quest to return home.

Now with a [[Characters/{{Kage}} Character Sheet]] that NeedsWikiMagicLove

Official Description: Sometimes even the heroes greatest victory can be tainted. And that cost Jade her place in her Universe. Now in another Universe watched by a place called Kandrakar and its Guardians, with some of the power she once possessed, Jade will try to find a way home, by any means necessary. But can she prevail in an Universe where Light seems to always beat Darkness?----!!This fic provides examples of:

* AdaptationDistillation: The author has referenced details from the comic continuity a few times.* AdaptationExpansion: The story has expanded upon some details, like Phobos overthrowing his parents.* TheAgeless: ** Jade believes that this is the type of immortality the Oni Generals have.** Shapeshifters don't age after the age of twenty.* AllMythsAreTrue: It seems that most creatures from Earth's mythology were inspired by beings from other worlds like Meridian and Arkhanta that one way or another ended up there.* AlternateUniverse: In that Jade gets banished by Drago during the JCA FinalBattle. That said, the W.I.T.C.H. universe appears to be a separate one from the JCA universe, judging by the Oracle's comments when feeling Jade's arrival on Meridian.* TheAntiChrist: According to N'ghala the First Oracle's prophecy, Jade (or the Queen of the Shadowkhan) will spread darkness across all the Known Worlds. And Yua shares with Ari another prophecy regarding a being whose description Jade matches bringing about the downfall of Kandrakar.* AntiVillain: Jade, who has the ultimate goal of getting home, and is only with Nerissa because of circumstance.* ArchEnemy: It is revealed that Drago views Jade as this.* BlatantLies: "The Mage" tells the good guys that Jade is a shapeshifter with a default form that borders on EldritchAbomination so she'll be falsely imprisoned, allowing Nerissa to promptly "rescue" her when she came to get Miranda.* BigBadEnsemble: Nerissa is following her canon plot, while also plotting to steal Jade's powers for herself. Meanwhile, the Queen is trying to corrupt Jade so that she can perform a SplitPersonalityTakeover, while [[KnightTemplar Kur]] is plotting from the sidelines to manipulate Elyon into aiding his [[FantasticRacism anti-shapeshifter]] plans. And then there's Yua and Ari, currently closer to BiggerBad status as they watch events unfold on Meridian, waiting for when they can step in and help Jade to fulfill the prophecy that she'll cause Kandrakar's downfall.* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Caleb is shown as having this, bordering on BlackAndWhiteInsanity. Especially when he claims he will have any village who sided with Phobos from the mayor to the villagers punished, and not caring about their reasoning.** In a later chapter Will lampshades this by admitting they shouldn't have assumed Jade was evil on sight just because of her powers and appearance, and that Raythor is merely following his code of honor. The others agree after a talk, but say they should still capture them.* CassandraTruth: Jade's claims about not being a threat, especially once Nerissa, disguised as the Mage, feeds the rebels [[BlatantLies a story about her being a shapeshifting monster]].* CastingAShadow: Jade can [[ShadowWalker enter shadows]] now, and while the Queen nearly manages to defeat Caleb and the Guardians with shadow-based CombatTentacles, which she later teaches Jade to use, she has yet to figure out how to summon Shadowkhan.* CelebrityParadox: [[spoiler:On the W.I.T.C.H. version of Earth, Jackie's niece is Stacie Chan instead of Jade, who aspires to be an actor like her uncle. In the JCA cartoon, the real-life Stacie was the voice of Jade]].* CerebusRetcon: Several W.I.T.C.H. events have been reworked to make them DarkerAndEdgier, like the battle of Sonder Hill.* ContinuityNod: When Jade first sees W.I.T.C.H., she wonders if they somehow got demon chi, even asking if they were the “Fairy Sorcerers”.* CombatTentacles: The Queen uses her CastingAShadow powers to create some while fighting the Guardians, and later shows Jade how to do it.* ComboPlatterPowers: Jade's transformation has granted her CastingAShadow powers, a HyperspaceArsenal of knives and shuriken, enhanced speed/agility and strength, and SuperToughness[=/=]MadeOfIron.* DarkIsEvil: Elyon seems convinced that Jade is evil mostly because of her shadow magic. And given the Queen's actions when in control of her body, Elyon may have a point.** The author has this to say on the matter: "''Let us all hope that Jade can get through this, but sometimes the greatest threat to anyone can be themselves, and we don´t need an alternate personality to understand how dangerous is the Darkness Within. [[DarkIsNotEvil For itself it is not evil]], but it helps.''"* DarkMessiah: It seems Jade is the focus of a prophecy of some kind, detailing dark forces spreading across the Known Worlds.* DesignatedHero: Jade has this opinion about the Guardians and the formel rebels, due to their GoodIsNotNice attitude. [[invoked]]* DownerBeginning: The story starts with Drago banishing Jade to the Shadow Realm shortly before he himself is banished to the Demon Netherworld. The scene is a ''massive'' TearJerker.* EldritchAbomination: Nerissa (as “The Mage”) says, [[BlatantLies lying though her teeth as she does so]], that Jade is a shapeshifter with a default form similar to this, so the rebels will mistrust and try to imprison her, allowing Nerissa to easily recruit her.* EmotionEater: The Queen (and Jade by extension) seems to be able to gain power from the negative emotions [[TheEmpath Jade can now feel]]. Just a few days among the Knights has given her enough strength to partially manifest in [[LivingShadow Jade's shadow]].* TheEmpath: Jade has developed the ability to feel negative emotions ("darkness within") in other people.* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Jade was a cunning GuileHero and BadassAdorable with WaifFu and even a little magic, now she has shadow powers on top of everything else.* EnemyWithin: The Queen, reawakened by Drago's spell, who wishes to overtake Jade's mind and reduce Jade to [[SplitPersonalityTakeover ''her'' shadow]].* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: ** Miranda's relationship with Cedric, who she bemoans leaving behind when escaping.** The Queen (grudgingly) admits to Jade that their family has always been important to her.* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[NobleDemon Raythor]] loudly objected against Jade becoming part of the Knights of Vengeance since he didn't want a little girl to be involved in their war. See NobleDemon below. Lampshaded by Jade:-->'''Jade:''' Wow, a bad guy with honor? Now I have seen everything.** Also, Miranda thinks Tracker is a monster, even compared to herself.* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Miranda is completely baffled when Tracker lets Jade [[PetTheDog get nice with his dog]], the only way she can understand it is that Jade must have used a spell on them.* EvilCostumeSwitch: After Jade is knocked out by Elyon and locked up, some shadows (possibly controlled by the Queen) cover her and replace her wannabe spy outfit with a set of shinobi robes. It's practically identical to the ones ninja Shadowkhan use, save for a mask or a hood. It even includes the tissue that's useful for gliding.** After the Knights have been formed, Nerissa creates for Jade a belt with the sorceress' emblem on it.** And later she makes a point by creating a makeshift bandana out of some orange cloth in order to at least partially replicate her original outfit (the orange hoody).* EvilIsPetty: Drago cast the spell on Jade that cast her to Meridian just so he could taint her victory, even if it still meant he and his father would become SealedEvilInACan (the chapter is even titled Sore Loser: If I have to go down, then so does she).** Phobos mocks the rebels for letting Nerissa free Jade and Miranda, even when it's pointed out that he's been left to rot.* EvilerThanThou: Jade feels this way about Phobos when she mentally compares him to Shendu, noting that while they both oppressed their subjects, Shendu was a draconic Demon Sorcerer, unlike Phobos, whose subjects were the same species, so he didn't even have FantasticRacism as an excuse for his cruelty.** Also, Miranda considers Tracker to be an even bigger monster than she is.* ExtremeOmnivore: After her transformation, Jade has no problem eating just about anything, it would seem.** BrainFood: When the Queen has controlled Jade body, she has threatened to eat her opponents brains, much to their shock. Jade actually eats a rat's brain off-screen. It disgusts the other Knights and makew many others to view her more monstrous than they thought previously. * FantasticRacism: Shapeshifters are generally despised by the rest of Meridian. There was a general purge of them 200 years ago, and Kur -- whose attitude is a scarily extreme example of this trope -- led another during Phobos' reign, even going so far as to also kill the normal people (such as Miranda's parents) who birthed and raised them, [[spoiler:and he seems to be planning another based on Nerissa's lie about Jade being a shapeshifting experiment of Phobos..]]* FantasticSlurs: Galhots are sometimes called Drakes. Many of them find it insulting.* {{Foreshadowing}}: The vision had by Himerish (and before him, the first Oracle N'ghala) paints a pretty good picture of what's coming, if the reader is smart enough to decipher it.* ForWantOfANail: According to WordOfGod, because of Jade's moral compass being more tightly wound than Nerissa's will cause things to start to drift farther from canon later in the story.** Also, the story seems to have almost the entire JCA series as canon, but diverges at the final battle, when Drago experiences some serious EvilIsPetty towards Jade.** One example is that Nerissa now wants to claim both Jade's [[CastingAShadow shadow powers]] ''and'' Elyon's power as the Heart of Meridian.** Instead of Miranda being partnered up with Sandpit for her mission to Earth in the third episode, Nerissa instead sends her with Jade, in order to confirm or deny her theories that "Kage" is from Earth.* FreudianExcuse: Miranda's lying to and betrayal of Elyon is part of the reason the young queen is so mistrustful of Jade.* FullCircleRevolution: The Rebellion is starting to show signs of this, with the somewhat extreme measures they're taking to hunt down the Knights of Vengeance and any other of Phobos' remaining loyalists. Frost, spying on one of Caleb's public announcements, even comments [[NotSoDifferent how similar to Cedric]] he seemed for a moment.* GameFace: When the Queen takes over, Jade's eyes turn solid red (as opposed to normal white but with red irises, as in the picture above) and she grows fangs.* GenreSavvy: Jade, as ever.* GlamourFailure: Jade was able to notice that "The Mage's" shadow didn't match up with her physical appearance (something that happened occasionally in canon), though she hasn't managed to figure out what it means yet (she's been a little preoccupied).* GoodIsNotNice: The Guardians, Elyon, and the rebels, at least towards Jade. And it seems that [[FullCircleRevolution the rebels are slowly extending this to the common people]].* {{Hammerspace}}: Jade can summon a seemingly limitless number of [[KnifeNut kunai and shuriken]] out of her sleeves. Both she and Miranda lampshade this:--> "Seriously, how the heck does this thing work?" Jade thought as for the hundredth time a kunai slid from her sleeve directly into her palm the moment she wanted a weapon. And when she didn't want one, the kunai slid back into her sleeve and even more amazing was the fact that she didn't feel it when touching the sleeve.-->"Where in the world does this outfit keeps its weapons?" Jade thought again as she closed her right hand and imagined a few shuriken in it. And once she opened her hand, a handful of the throwing stars were there.--> "How many weapons do you have?" Miranda asked, having spent several minutes watching the blue girl making that strange knife appear and disappear several times, and now those star shaped objects she imagined would be used by throwing.-->"As many as I want," Jade responded while still looking at the shuriken.-->"I think," she added mentally as she closed her hand and then reopened it with the shuriken gone.* HannibalLecture: Phobos delivers one to Caleb, telling him that it was the Guradians and Elyon who defeated him, not the Rebellion, which he considers a bunch of armed peasants.** ShutUpHannibal: Vathek then points out that Phobos was pretty much dethroned by a group of teenage girls, causing everybody there to laugh at him.* HeroicSacrifice: When Jade realizes that her family and friends cannot stop Drago's curse from dragging her through her shadow, she says a tearful goodbye (cluing Viper into what she was planning), then releases Jackie's hands before anyone can stop her, so that they wouldn't suffer the same fate.* HeroWithBadPublicity: Jade in Meridian.* HypocriticalHumor: Miranda calls Jade strange when discussing her {{Hammerspace}} abilities, despite being [[VoluntaryShapeshifting a shapeshifter with the ability to become a giant spider-like creature.]]-->'''Miranda:''' You are a strange one.-->'''Jade:''' [[LampshadeHanging So says the girl that can turn into a spider like creature.]]* IntergenerationalFriendship: Jade and Raythor seem to be forming one.* ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty: This happens almost literally with shapeshifters, who age normally for the first part of their lives, then stop aging entirely at about 18-20 years old, and can live for four to five centuries.* JapaneseHonorifics: Occasionally Jade says Japanese words, especially when she's angry. Presumably this comes from being an Oni/Shadowkhan. The Queen does it as well.* JerkassFacade: Miranda. Her talk about eating Passlings turns out to be BlatantLies. She's still a {{Jerkass}}, but she purposely acts like she's worse than she is.* JerkassHasAPoint: When Jade refuses to become a killer, the Queen points out that she already ''is'', bringing up the time she killed Shendu with the Dragon Talisman, and stating how, regardless of Shendu coming back afterwards, at the time they thought (and for all intents and purposes ''had'') they had killed him.* KatanasAreJustBetter: As shown in the picture above, Jade eventually gets a shadow katana (a gift from the Queen).* KnifeNut: Jade has gained the ability to conjure kunai and shuriken [[{{Hammerspace}} out of nowhere]] whenever she wants.* KnifeOutline: Nerissa does this Aldarn with arrows when she frees Jade and Miranda. And Jade traps Drake with a kunai while the Knights capture Tynar.* KnightTemplar: Some of the rebels somewhat come off as this, especially Kur's faction.* LampshadeHanging:** Jade lampshades how Caleb's BlackAndWhiteMorality can border on BlackAndWhiteInsanity:--> This guy was really pushing Jade's buttons. Either he was a hero of this… place or thought himself to be one; either way, she never had encountered someone so shortsighted. Maybe Jackie followed a very strict code of morals and tried to drill that into her, but at least he was not that intolerant to others that didn't follow his beliefs. Even with Viper, he was at most annoyed by her "lifestyle" than truly condemning her, not to mention he and Uncle gave Tohru a chance when others, even Jade herself at the time, were not that forgiving. And of course, there was Jackie's infinite patience when dealing with her "misdeeds".--> But this guy resembled one of those comic book heroes with a much too narrowed view that only saw black and white, with no grey in the middle. And to think, she thought that was cool once.** Jade mentally lampshades Taranee's haircut in Guardian form when she first sees it.** She later lampshades Miranda's HypocriticalHumor.* LivingShadow: The Queen has gained enough power to partially manifest in Jade's shadow.* [[LostTechnology Lost Art]]: [[CastingAShadow Shadow magic]] has apparently not been practiced ''at '''all''''' in the W.I.T.C.H. universe for centuries (if not millennia), and although it is said that a few spellbooks on the subject and "sources of darkness" probably remain, Kandrakar itself has next to ''no'' information on it, save that it can consume whoever uses it.** This is because Althair, a mad member of the Kandrakar council, [[InvokedTrope purposefully tried to get rid of all information on it]].** This has led Nerissa to plan to claim Jade’s abilities as her own in addition to Elyon’s.* MadeOfIron[=/=]SuperToughness: One of Jade's new abilities. * ManipulativeBitch: Nerissa, disguised as the Mage, tells the rebels that Jade is a monster and a servant of Phobos, knowing that they'll turn on her, leaving her no place to go but with the Knights of Vengeance.* TheManInTheMirrorTalksBack: The Queen can speak to Jade like this.* MayDecemberRomance: Miranda (who's 14) and Cedric (whose age is unknown, but he's at least in his 20s). * MeaningfulName: "[[TitleDrop Kage]]", Jade's alias, is Japanese for "shadow".* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Jade's reaction after the Queen takes over and nearly kills Caleb and the Guardians. And then Elyon's reaction when she nearly kills Jade in a fit of rage in response.* NiceJobBreakingItHero: If the Guardians hadn't been so quick to attack Jade when she arrived in Meridian, or if Elyon hadn't nearly fried her with her powers after the [[EnemyWithin Queen]] briefly took over, Jade might not have ended up with Nerissa.* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Raythor comforting Jade when she's being crushed with guilt over realizing she's killed before is able to temporarily derail the Queen's attempts at taking over.* NoCureForEvil: Averted. After Jade receives serious burns from Elyon's rays, some shadows that are possibly controlled by the Queen cover Jade and heal her wounds without leaving so much as a scar.* NobleDemon: Raythor, to Jade's surprise -- among other things, his first reaction to meeting Jade is to refuse to let Nerissa force a child to fight their war. It's only when Jade insists on fighting (due to her own new vendetta against the Guardians and Elyon) and proves she can fight, that he backs down.-->'''Jade:''' Wow, a bad guy with honor? Now I have seen everything.* NoSell: Elyon's "teleport them to the jail" trick doesn't work on Jade.** Nerissa explains why in chapter 8 -- that spell only works on beings native to Meridian, which Jade is not.* NotSoDifferent: Raythor notes that Jade is [[TokenGoodTeammate more noble than the other Knights]], even comparing her to the Guardians (though due to their GoodIsNotNice attitude towards her, she denies it).** Jade mentally compares Raythor and Tohru at one point.** Raythor and Frost both compare Caleb to Cedric when the former gives a speech about the means being taken to hunt down Phobos' remaining loyalists.** When Jade notices how many of the rebels are holding onto their old bitterness towards the Guard, she thinks about the irony of how that makes them not that different from the other Knights. She also expresses the belief that if the Meridianites could, they would wait for centuries to have their revenge, like [[SinsOfOurFathers Shendu]] did for 900 years.* OffTheRails: According to Yua, the longer Nerissa attempts to force Kage into her plans, the greater the disruption to them she will cause. The timeline changes are already slowly becoming more visible, and of course this will only deepen further in.* OlderThanTheyLook[=/=]ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:** Jade is briefly surprised when Will looks younger than she did in her Guardian form, with Miranda explaining that the age a Guardian is when transformed is constant, making it a combination of this trope and YoungerThanTheyLook.** Galhots/Drakes like Raythor and Frost live for around 200 years on average. Raythor himself is about 100, much to Jade's surprise, and Frost is about 70. ** Shapeshifters [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty stop aging around 18 or twenty and can live for four to five centuries afterwards]]. Jade briefly assumes this about Miranda, but it turns out she's only 14.* PetTheDog: Raythor's kindness towards Jade, especially when compared to the treatment she has received from the Guardians and the rebels.** A literal example involving Tracker and his dog, Sniffer -- Tracker helps him adjust to Jade so that she won't get attacked by him.* PowerIncontinence: As an effect of a power boost, Cornelia has troubles controlling her powers.* RealityEnsues: [[WeAreStrugglingTogether There is still some mistrust]] [[AHouseDivided between Phobos' former guards and the rebels]], who up until a few days before the start of the story had been at war with each other for years.* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Himerish is willing to give Jade the benefit of a doubt rather than automatically assume that the prophecy is to be taken as inevitable.* RetGone: [[spoiler:: On the parallel Earth [=W.I.T.C.H.=] takes place in, Jade does not exist. Instead a girl named Stacie is Jackie Chan's niece, a young girl aspiring to follow her uncle into acting.]]* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized: The Rebellion has been made [[CerebusRetcon more ruthless than it was in canon]].** Nearly two years earlier, some rebels stirred up the population of Sonder Hill to revolt openly and violently against Prince Phobos. They even murdered tribute collectors. And before the army arrived to punish the village, the instigators fled. And the Rebellion didn't show up to stop the slaughter that took place in the village.** Kur was already a member when he committed his purge of shapeshifters that cost the lives of Miranda's parents.* RunningGag: Jade referring to the Guardians as fairies and Elyon as "crazy blonde", "blonde chick" or "blonde psycho".* SecretIdentity: Jade goes by "[[MeaningfulName Kage]]" in Meridian.* SecretTestOfCharacter: Jade quickly figures out that the reason "Kage" was sent to spy on the castle and find out where Tynar was going to be (so they could capture him) instead of one of the other Knights wasn’t ''just'' because of tactics (though Raythor’s reasoning ''was'' pretty sound, in that Jade’s [[CastingAShadow power to enter shadows]] would be ideal for the task), it was because Raythor wanted to gauge her loyalty to the cause.* SeenItAll: When Jade sees the Knights of Vengeance all together in one place, she notes to herself that she's seen weirder.** She makes a similar comment when Raythor proves to be a NobleDemon.-->'''Jade:''' Wow, a bad guy with honor? Now I have seen everything.* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: Kur, a village elder and rebel leader, has no problem speaking his mind, however rude it might be.* ShoutOut: Himerish's thoughts on greatness sound a lot like Mr. Ollivander's words from the first ''Literature/HarryPotter'' book:--> "Unfortunately greatness is neutral in itself. It can serve the greater good or bring a great evil instead. It all depends of the person in question."** Also, according to WordOfGod, Jade’s banishment scene was partially inspired by another Dark Jade fic, ''Fanfic/HerShadowedRealm''.** Also according to WordOfGod, the idea to have Miranda's appetite for Passlings be a false rumor came from another W.I.T.C.H. fanfic.** At one point, the Queen jokingly suggests that Tarakudo has been visiting Jade in her dreams, something that actually happens in a number of other Dark Jade fics.* SneezeCut: With Jade in chapter 10.* SoreLoser: [[EvilIsPetty Drago]]. It's even ''[[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by the [[UpToEleven chapter title!]]''* SpannerInTheWorks: Yua foresees Jade as being this to Nerissa's plans in the long run.* {{Squick}}: InUniverse, this is the collective response from the Knights when Jade eats a dead rat, including cracking open its skull to slurp its brain.* TemptingFate: When Caleb is complaining about his lack of success at capturing the remaining Phobos' minions, he wonders if Phobos, Cedric, and Miranda would escape the dungeons of Infinite City. Immediately he heard a horn signaling that yes, somebody did escape from the dungeons.--> '''Caleb:''' "[[LampshadeHanging I had to jinx it]]."* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The dynamic between Jade and Miranda, though Miranda says that, if it wasn't for Raythor, the entire group would be at each other's throat.** Jade lampshades this in chapter nine, when Miranda and Frost argue.* TitleDrop: Jade calls herself "[[MeaningfulName Kage]]" when Nerissa asks her name.* TokenGoodTeammate: Jade to the Knights of Vengeance. It's lampshaded and discussed in chapter 9.** Raythor lampshades this trope by stating that Jade is far more noble and less evil than the rest of the group.** According to [[TheNoseKnows Blunk]], all the Knights smell very bad, except "Kage". Much to the Passling's confusion, he finds her smell to be "half good and half bad".** When Jade gives water to a seriously thirsty Tynar, he's truly amazed by her act of kindness.--> "If it were any of the others, they would probably ignore him or taunt him by drinking in front of him. So why did she help him?"* ToThePain: When Miranda corners Jade and questions her motives, Jade (or possibly the Queen in another moment of temporary control), threatens to [[AnArmAndALeg rip off her limbs]], [[EyeScream gouge out her eyes]], and [[BrainFood eat her brain]].* UnskilledButStrong: Elyon is powerful, but she was never taught by her brother how to properly control it.* VillainousBreakdown: Drago appears to be in the middle of one when casting the spell that banishes Jade, {{Laughing Mad}}ly as he does so and even as he and Shendu get banished themselves.* WantedPoster: Each Knight gets one to be spread throughout Meridian. Jade's poster shows her when the Queen controls their body.* WeakButSkilled: Jade, at least when compared to the Guardians and Elyon.* WeAreAsMayflies: Non-magical humans are short-lived compared to the other species on Meridian, sapient or not, though magical humans can extend their lifespan, with Elyon's family being notable examples.** The Drakes/Galhots usually live to be about 200 years old. Raythor is about 100, and is considered middle-aged for his race.** [[OurOrcsAreDifferent The Lurden]] live about as long as the Drakes.** Gargoyle's people can live to be about a thousand years old.** Shapeshifters [[ImmortalityBeginsAtTwenty age normally for the first 18-20 years of their lives, then cease aging entirely]] for the rest of their four to five hundred year lifespan.* WeAreStrugglingTogether: There's a lot of tension between the rebels and Phobos' former Guards, while even among the rebels themselves there is a lot of disagreement and arguing.** According to Miranda, this is the Knights of Vengeance's situation as well, or it would be if it wasn't for Raythor.* WellIntentionedExtremist: Long ago, a disciple of Kandrakar, Althair the Mad Sage, led a crusade across the Known Worlds, killing thousands (especially children) in order to prevent Oracle N'ghala's vision of the "Incoming Darkness" from coming to pass.** Nerissa ''believes'' that she is one.* WhatTheHellHero: Jade gives Will a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech over framing Raythor as a traitor.* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Nerissa didn't think that Frost would be stupid enough to attack the Guardians on his own, but she changes her mind after she uses a tracking spell that shows him doing ''exactly'' that.* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Miranda is quite the hateful being, but it's revealed that this is because when she was a child, she was ForcedToWatch Kur kill her parents in front of her as part of his purge of shapeshifters, telling her the whole time that it was her own fault that it happened.* TheWorfEffect: When the Queen manages to temporarily take control of Jade, she very nearly defeats the Guardians and Caleb entirely by herself.* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: This is Jade's reaction to the giant rose Cornelia creates to defeat the Knights.-->'''Jade:''' "A GIANT FREAKING ROSE?! ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"* YouRebelScum: Raythor, Miranda and Frost refer to the (former) rebels this way.